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Nobuaki Takahashi, Professor
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The Molecular Biochemistry Lab studies the "invisible stress" that living organisms experience and the mechanisms by which they respond to it. Fluctuations in oxygen, reactive oxygen species, and pH can trigger aging and disease, but they also act as forces that direct development and evolution. The lab develops technologies to make stress visible, and investigates how it is sensed and responded to, how cancer arises, and how mammals evolved. Combining chemistry and biology, it also tackles the mystery of the origin of life across disciplinary boundaries.
Naoyuki Amemiya, Professor
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The Applied Superconductivity Lab studies how to apply superconductivity, in which electrical resistance drops to zero, to a wide range of fields. Superconducting wires can transmit electricity without loss, and they can carry far more current than copper wires of the same thickness, producing strong magnetic fields. The lab clarifies the invisible electromagnetic phenomena that occur inside superconducting materials and uses that understanding to design devices. The work proceeds through both experimental evaluation and large-scale simulations on a dedicated computer server.
Hiroyuki Hashiguchi, Professor
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The Earth Atmosphere Measurement group (Hashiguchi Lab) applies the latest technologies in electrical and electronic engineering and in communications and information engineering to the science of Earth's atmosphere. To capture changes in the Earth's environment and predict the future, the atmosphere must first be observed precisely. The lab develops its own remote sensing instruments to collect atmospheric data, and analyzes that data together with data from international observation networks. Its research is interdisciplinary, lying at the boundary between engineering and science, and the lab also puts great effort into international collaborative research.
Iwao Kawayama, Professor
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The Device Process Engineering Lab studies new ways of making materials and devices to help solve energy problems. Using thin-film fabrication techniques that control structure and composition at the atomic level, the lab creates oxide thin films with new structures and functions. Using methods such as terahertz spectroscopy with ultrashort-pulse lasers, the lab investigates the motion of electrons and ions inside materials. The lab handles the whole process consistently, from material synthesis to device fabrication and the measurement and analysis of properties.
Kazunobu Nagasaki, Professor
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The Plasma Energy Conversion Lab conducts basic research on magnetically confined plasma for nuclear fusion. By finely controlling the interaction between charged particles and electromagnetic fields, the lab generates and heats high-temperature plasma and drives current in it. The lab also explores methods of injecting neutral particle beams from large ion sources to create high-density plasma and improve confinement. The lab develops its own diagnostic instruments using microwaves and spectroscopy, and pursues both experiment and theory.
Jun Saito, Associate Professor
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The Applied Mechanics Lab studies the computational methods themselves used to verify whether civil engineering structures are mechanically safe. To explain data obtained from field measurements and laboratory experiments in a coherent way, the lab models the mechanical phenomena involved in the simplest form possible. Based on those models, it develops methods that predict future behavior by computer. The subjects range widely from water flow to ground, concrete, and tunnels, in a field where a foundation in mathematics and mechanics is essential.
Takashi Yamamoto, Professor
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The Structural Materials Lab studies concrete, the most widely used material in civil engineering structures. As the foundation of society, civil engineering structures are used for many years under harsh natural and social environments, and they become damaged and deteriorate. The lab therefore covers a broad range, from the basic properties of concrete as a material to the durability performance and maintenance of structures. It also works on soundness assessment, repair, and strengthening of deteriorated structures, and on the development of new materials and new structural forms.
Yasuo Kitane, Professor
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The Structural Mechanics Lab studies civil engineering structures such as bridges made of steel and FRP. It investigates how much force a structure can withstand, how it behaves in an earthquake, and how it deteriorates over time. Using both loading experiments and numerical simulation, the lab clarifies mechanical behavior and develops rational design methods. Student teams take part in bridge model contests and the Japan Steel Bridge Competition, giving students the chance to learn about bridges in depth.
Tomomi Yagi, Professor
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The Bridge Engineering Lab does research in wind engineering, studying how structures behave in strong winds. Focusing on bridge girder cross-sections and cables, it examines airflow and vibration using wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). It clarifies the mechanisms by which structures begin to vibrate on their own in wind, and develops countermeasures to suppress the vibration. It also covers disaster prevention and maintenance, including strong-wind disasters from typhoons and tornadoes, corrosion from airborne salt, and snow accretion on structures.
Yoshikazu Takahashi, Professor
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The Structural Dynamics Lab studies how infrastructure such as bridges shakes in earthquakes. The lab traces its origins to the first research chair named for earthquake engineering in a civil engineering department at a Japanese university. Through both experiments and analysis, it covers everything from response to seismic shaking, to control methods that reduce shaking, to implementation in seismic design. In recent years, performance evaluation that takes into account changes in material properties over long use has become important, and the lab is also advancing research on deteriorated members.
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